Effectiveness of resiliency based training on reducing students' anxiety

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of resiliency based training on reducing high school students' anxiety. Statistical society comprised all high school female students from district nineteen in Tehran city in the academic year of 1389-90. In order to choose the sample group, 120 students were selected using multistage cluster sampling method. In the first round, one district out of nineteen was randomly selected. Then, two high schools in that district were selected. Finally, six classrooms of forty seven classes in those schools were randomly selected. Then, performing Katel Anxiety Questionnaire (1957) and Resiliency Questionnaire (Connor-Davidson (2003), 40 of students who scored above the sample mean test scores of anxiety and lower than average for resiliency questionnaire were selected. According to the research being quesi-experimental, randomly 20 of them were replaced in control group and 20 in experimental group. Then, the experimental group was trained for 10 sessions, each 90 minutes based on resiliency. After training sessions, as the post-test, status anxiety and resiliency of both experimental and control groups were measured. The collected data from pretest and posttest were analyzed using independent groups t test. Results showed that there are significant difference between mean experimental and control groups in a=0/05 in total anxiety factor, state anxiety and trait anxiety